Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Is there an obligation on the processors to engage with them because at the moment they are stonewalling. A farm organisation - a group of them together - might be boxed into a corner given what they are dealing with. They had to discuss price because there was a group of them together that represented most people in the country. At the moment if there is a producer organisation because cattle are plentiful, they will not engage with anyone because they are afraid to give them any power. What is going on is a contradiction.